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[ Mercure de France, May 15, 1790. (Letter of Baron de Bois-d'Aisy, April 29, read in the National Assembly.)—Moniteur, IV. 302. Sitting of May 6. (Official statement of the Justice of the Peace of Vitteaux, April 28.)]
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[ "Archives Nationales," DXXIX. 4. Letter of M. Belin-Chatellenot (near Asnay-le-Duc) to the President of the National Assembly, July 1, 1791. "In the realm of liberty we live under the most cruel tyranny, and in a state of the most complete anarchy, while the administrative bodies and the police, still in their infancy, seem to act only in fear and trembling. . . . So far, in all crimes, they are more concerned with extenuating the facts, than in punishing the offense. The result is that the guilty have had no other restraint on them than a few gentle phrases like this: Dear brothers and friends, you are in the wrong, be careful," etc.—Ibid. , F7, 3229. Letter of the Directory of the Department of Marne, July 13, 1791. (Searches by the National Guard in chateaux and the disarming of formerly privileged persons.) "None of our injunctions were obeyed." For example, there is breakage and violence in the residence of M. Guinaumont at Merry, the gun, shot and powder of the game-keeper even are carried off. "M. de Guinaumont is without the means of defending himself against a mad dog or any other savage brute that might come into his woods or into his courtyard." The Mayor of Merry, with the National Guard, under compulsion, tells them in vain that they are breaking the law.—Petition of Madame d'Ambly, wife of the deputy, June 28, 1791. Not having the guns which she had already given up, she is made to pay 150 francs.]
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[ "Archives Nationales," DXXIX. 4. Letters of the Administrators of the Department of Rhône-et-Loire, July 6, 1791. (M. Vilet is one of the signers.)—Mercure de France, October 8, 1791.]
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[ Mercure de France, August 20, 1791, the article by Mallet du Pan. "The details of the picture I have just sketched were all furnished me by Madame Dumoutet herself." I am "authorized by her signature to guarantee the accuracy of this narrative.">[
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[ Mercure de France, August 20, 1791, the article by Mallet du Pan. "The proceedings instituted at Lyons confirmed this banquet of cannibals.">[